Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Frugal Living => Topic started by: jennyb on July 14, 2007, 21:30
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anyone ever been tempted by it?
if so what have you tried?
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I don't but I know some who do :lol: http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?t=2002&highlight=road+kill (http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?t=2002&highlight=road+kill)
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I know if a stag gets knocked down in the lanes where I work the locals race there to get a bit of it.
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My dad used to come home with a lot of pheasant roadkill. He was a very down to earth Irishman that loved ferreting and poaching, so we ate like royalty. Can't see the problem except that it might be a little more mangled, but no less tasty.
There is a strange law in this country whereby if you kill something it is illegal for you to stop and pick it up, but the next person along can. :shock:
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A car infrount of my brother once knocked down a deer so my brother picked it up and brought it home we had venison for ages and i knocked down a phesant and brought it home.
as long as its not squished or stiff you can eat it.
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reminds me of the two tramps walking down a lane - 1 stops and picks up the remains of a rabbit - offers it to his mate, who sharply declines - then tucks in - spitting out the fur as he sucks off the flesh.
a little while later they come across a maggot riddled pheasant. again the tramp picks it up and offers it to his mate - who again shakes his head in disgust.
later a deer lay by the side of the road - and again the tramp tucks in to the rotting flesh - the other tramp cringes at the sight of his friend looking like hannibal lector.
after a few hours, the tramp who had eaten the roadkill was feeling queezy, bends over and has an almight heeve - puke goes everywhere - thats more like it replies the other tramp - just what iv'e been waiting for - a nice hot meal... :lol:
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:roll:
yuk thats sick lol
nathan
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Road kill is OK, I've eaten loads of rabbit and pheasant and a good few other birds. If you dint kill it yourself, look out for feathers still blowing about, show its fresh, or a rabbit should still be floppy and a bit warm. I hear you can eat badger but I wouldn't, they smell too bad.
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was wondering whether you needed to hang the meat etc.
if i found a decent enough looking pigeon for example - not too squashed etc how would i go about things?
also muntjac - your reading this?? hope so. do you still catch/trap eels?
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was wondering whether you needed to hang the meat etc.
if i found a decent enough looking pigeon for example - not too squashed etc how would i go about things?
also muntjac - your reading this?? hope so. do you still catch/trap eels?
also i would like to add never ever eat anyroad kill what smells even in the slightest off if your unsure do not eat it.
there isnt a lot of meat on pigeon anyway so i really wouldnt bother with pigeogn.as for hanging yes by all means but not for to long remember you wont exactley know when the animal was killed
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I don't hang it. If it's been hit by a car it won't be a clean kill so I like to get it stripped and jointed ASAP. Baby rabbits are lovely just dipped in flour and panfried in butter - older ones are tough and need casseroling. For a pigeon, don't bother plucking just skin the breast and cut that off, throw the rest away its more work than the result is worth. Pheasant is difficult to tell the age, if its legs look tough, yellow and scaly then its probably older and tougher. The trick with pheasant is to eat it either rare or cooked for hours, anywhere in between its like leather.
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am very tempted to take a drive round the country lanes now....
thing is i think my mum will have a fit if i come home with something......
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Oh no, you don't let anyone else know you do it, thats worse than eating nettles...
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i couldnt do it myself, i couldnt do anthing to it while it sat there looking at me :(
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Trust me, it won't be looking at you, they almost always get hit in the head...
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So the farmer's walking along with his shotgun under his arm, turns the corner into his field and find a buxom wench in his field, stark naked.
"Are you game?" he says.
"Yes," she says.
So he shot her.
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"BOOM BOOM" :lol:
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TWICE!!!!!
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There was a series on t.v. called road kill and the chap ate nothing but what he found this way. I agree theoretically but in practise no way could I do it. :shock: :roll: :wink:
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just pass the salt & pepper :twisted: :roll:
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Always move badgers off the road anyway and hide them in the verge. Not only do you stop the poor things getting more mangled but you are removing any evidence that they live there. Just in case any badger baiters pass by.
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as well as badger baiters, alot of dairy farmers have a BIG problem with badgers (though i don't think the link between badgers and cows getting tb has been proven?) -- maybe that's more of an irish thing though? whatever, it is definately a good idea to remove any dead badgers from the side of the road.
if you find a dead badger (road kill or whatever) i think there's some wildlife group you should report it to -- can't remember who though.
in a similar way, i work as a volunteer for the irish whale and dolphin group -- it's important that this kind of thing are recorded.
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road kil of any kind is ok ..so long as its fresh .. look for fly eggs on it .leave it alone if the stomach is real plump this means its going gassy and past its best .and by the way if you hit an animal on the highway you now have a duty of care to that animal .. so if its still alive kill it if possible with a wheel wrench or heavy hammer ............... then pop it in the boot as you can take it if you say ur going to take it to a taxidermist .not eat it :lol: :lol: :wink:
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If you find a dead badger just report it to your local wildlife trust. They will check if its been killed by a car or been killed by dogs ie used for baiting. Our local vet says there are no problems with local badgers carrying TB though there is to be a massive extermination of them by gassing , starting in the South and South East. They want to kill up to 80% of the badger population. :evil:
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thanks ruby, couldn't remember who it was who records them.
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Take one OAP and slowly marinade.......... :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: